US5170550A - Double-walled cabinet structure for air conditioning equipment - Google Patents

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US5170550A
US5170550A US07/662,358 US66235891A US5170550A US 5170550 A US5170550 A US 5170550A US 66235891 A US66235891 A US 66235891A US 5170550 A US5170550 A US 5170550A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
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    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T29/49359—Cooling apparatus making, e.g., air conditioner, refrigerator
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  • the present invention generally relates to air conditioning apparatus, and more particularly relates to housing or cabinetry structures in which the operating components of various types of air conditioning equipment, such as furnaces, air handlers and heat pumps, are disposed for air flow therethrough.
  • the operating components of the above-mentioned and other types of air conditioning equipment are typically housed within a rectangularly cross-sectioned cabinet formed from a single layer outer sheet metal jacket having a layer of fibrous insulating material adhered to its interior side surface. Air to be heated and/or cooled is flowed through this interiorly insulated cabinet structure, and across heat exchange apparatus disposed therein, on its way to the conditioned space served by the air conditioning equipment.
  • each of the four depicted furnace housings is formed from separate double-walled panel sections which must be operatively intersecured using specially designed clip structures and/or fastening members.
  • the cylindrical furnace housing depicted in U.S. Pat. No. 1,195,845 to Neal is formed from six separate wall sections provided along opposite edges thereof with clip structures which must be secured to adjacent clip structures on other wall sections with a multiplicity of threaded fasteners.
  • the rectangular furnace housing shown in U.S. Pat. No. 2,324,710 to Livar is formed from four separate double-walled panel structures joined at their adjacent side edges by interlockable clip structures.
  • each of the four separate housing wall sections shown in the Livar patent comprises inner and outer metal panels to which a series of metal clip members and spacing members must be individually welded before the housing can be assembled.
  • This structural complexity associated with the individual double-walled panel structures, coupled with the complexity and time associated with intersecuring them to form the overall cabinet structure, has heretofore rendered the use of double-walled cabinet structures in air conditioning application generally unsuitable from an economic standpoint.
  • blower and heat exchanger components of an air conditioning unit are housed within a specially designed, double-walled sheet metal cabinet structure representatively comprising a rectangularly cross-sectioned coil housing secured to the outlet end of a rectangularly cross-sectioned return housing.
  • each housing is constructed by positioning essentially flat inner and outer bendable rectangular wall panels in an aligned laterally facing relationship; transversely bending opposite end portions of the panels, relative to central portions thereof, to form a generally U-shaped structure defining three side walls of the housing and having an open side opposite the central portion of the inner wall panel; interconnecting outer ends of the outer wall panel to hold it in its transversely bent configuration; providing a double-walled access panel; and removably securing the access panel to the U-shaped structure, across the open side thereof, to form the fourth side wall of the rectangular housing.
  • Cooperating abutment means are formed on the inner and outer panels from integral portions thereof. With the panels in their transversely bent, nested orientation, the cooperating abutment means function to captively retain the inner panel on the outer panel, without using supplemental fastening means, and also function to space the panels apart in a manner maintaining a generally U-shaped insulating air space between the nested panels.
  • the double-walled cabinet structure formed in this manner permits the elimination of the usual fibrous insulation conventionally adhered to the interior side surface of an air conditioning equipment cabinet structure, the insulation of the stacked coil and return housings being achieved instead by the dead air space disposed between their spaced apart inner and outer side walls. Air sequentially flowing through the two housings does so along their smooth, insulationless inner side surfaces, thereby decreasing the air flow resistance associated with the housings and eliminating the possibility of fibrous insulation material entrainment in the air flow.
  • the aforementioned cooperating abutment means on each of the two housings include transversely bent opposite end and side edge portions on the inner and outer panels, and generally V-shaped troughs formed on the inner panel and longitudinally extending transversely to its opposite side edges.
  • the bent opposite end and side edge portions of the inner sheet metal panel are in an inwardly adjacent, facing relationship with the bent opposite end and side edge portions of the outer sheet metal panel, and the V-shaped trough portions on the inner panel project toward and engage the inner side surface of the outer panel.
  • the aligned panels are transversely bent, the bending occurs along the lengths of the troughs, and the bent opposite end and side edge portions of the outer panel act as abutment stops which captively retain the inner panel on the outer panel.
  • the outer ends of the transversely bent, generally U-shaped outer panel on each housing are secured to the opposite ends of an elongated connecting member having a flat portion which overlies a side edge portion of the outer panel.
  • An inner side section of this flat portion, together with inner side sections of the bent portions of the outer panel extending along this side edge thereof, may be laterally outwardly bent to collectively define a generally rectangular external duct connection flange on the housing.
  • FIG. 1 is a partially cut away perspective view of a representative up-flow forced air furnace incorporating therein a unique double-walled cabinet structure which embodies principles of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the cabinet structure
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of elongated rectangular inner and outer sheet metal panel members used to form three side walls of a coil housing portion of the cabinet structure;
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the panel members operatively interfitted prior to transverse bending thereof to form the aforementioned three side walls of the coil housing;
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view through the interfitted panel members taken along line 5--5 of FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 6 is a vertically foreshortened, enlarged scale fragmentary cross-sectional view through the coil housing taken along line 6--6 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 7 is a vertically foreshortened, enlarged scale cross-sectional view through a double-walled access door portion of the coil housing taken along line 7--7 of FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 1 The air conditioning equipment perspectively illustrated in FIG. 1 is representatively in the form of a forced air furnace 10 which is provided with a rectangularly cross-sectioned double-walled cabinet structure 12 which embodies principles of the present invention.
  • Cabinet structure 12 comprises a rectangularly cross-sectioned upper coil housing 14 having open upper and lower ends and secured atop a somewhat taller return housing 14 a which also has a rectangular cross-section, and open upper and lower ends.
  • the coil housing 14 has left, right and rear side wall sections 16, 18 and 20, and an open front side which is covered by a removable access panel structure 22.
  • each of the side wall sections 16, 18 and 20 of the coil housing 14 is of a double-walled construction defined by horizontally spaced apart inner and outer sheet metal walls 24, 26 defining therebetween an insulating air space 28.
  • the access panel 22 is also of a double-walled construction (see FIGS. and 7) defined by horizontally spaced apart inner and outer sheet metal walls 30 and 32 which define therebetween an insulating air space 34.
  • the return housing 14 a has left, right and rear side wall sections 16 a , 18 a , and 20 a and has removably secured to its open front side an access panel 22 a .
  • the side wall sections 16 a , 18 a and 20 a are each of a double-walled construction formed by horizontally spaced apart inner and outer sheet metal walls 24 a , 26 a which define therebetween an insulating air space 28 a .
  • the access panel 22 a is also of a double-walled construction, having inner and outer sheet metal walls 30 a , 32 a which define therebetween an insulating air space 34 a .
  • the open upper end of the coil housing 14 is provided around its periphery with an upturned generally rectangular duct connection flange 36 to which a supply duct 38, shown in phantom, is operatively connected.
  • the open lower end of the return housing 14 a is provided around its periphery with a downwardly projecting, generally rectangular duct connection flange (not shown) to which a return duct 40, shown in phantom, is operatively connected.
  • a supply air blower 42 having an inlet opening 44 is disposed within the return housing 14 a , as is a schematically depicted heat exchange structure 46, such as an electric resistance heating coil or a hot combustion gas heat exchanger.
  • a heat exchange structure such as a refrigerant coil 48, is operatively supported within the coil housing 14.
  • return air 50 from the conditioned space served by the furnace is drawn upwardly through the duct 40, into the inlet 44 of the blower 42, forced upwardly across the heat exchange structures 46 and 48, and returned to the conditioned space, as conditioned air 50 a , via the supply duct 38.
  • the air vertically traversing the interior of the cabinet structure 12 does so along smooth metal interior surfaces thereof since, unlike conventionally constructed air conditioning equipment cabinet structures, the cabinet 12 does not have fibrous insulation material adhered to its interior side surface.
  • the thermal insulation of the cabinet 12 is accomplished instead by the various aforementioned insulating spaces disposed between the inner and outer walls of the housing 14 and 14 a .
  • Each of the double-walled housings 14, 14 a may be rapidly and relatively inexpensively constructed using a unique method of the present invention which will now be described in conjunction with FIGS. 3-6.
  • This construction method is the same for eaoh of the illustrated housings 14, 14 a . Accordingly, the following description representatively relates to the construction of the upper coil housing 14. However, it will be readily appreciated that the lower housing 14 a is constructed using the same steps.
  • the upper coil housing 14 is formed from essentially flat, elongated rectangular sheet metal inner and outer wall panel members 24 and 26.
  • the inner wall panel member 24 has downturned opposite end edge portions 52 and longitudinally spaced apart, generally V-shaped downwardly projecting troughs 54 which longitudinally extend in directions parallel to the downturned end edges 52.
  • the outer wall panel member 26 has upturned opposite end edge portions 58 with inturned lip portions 59 and, along its near side edge, three upturned side edge portions 60 separated by a pair of generally V-shaped notches 62.
  • Upturned side edge portions 64 Extending along the far side of the outer panel 26 are three upturned side edge portions 64 separated by a pair of generally V-shaped notches 66 which are longitudinally aligned with the previously mentioned pair of notches 62.
  • the upturned side edge portions 64 as illustrated, are vertically wider than the upturned side edge portions 60 and, for reasons subsequently discussed, have formed along their lengths a series of horizontally elongated slots 68.
  • the inner wall panel member 24 is positioned above the outer wall panel 26, in alignment therewith and is then moved downwardly, as indicated by the arrow 70 in FIG. 3, into a laterally nested relationship with the outer wall panel 26 as depicted in FIGS. 4 and 5.
  • the upturned end flanges 58 of the outer wall panel 26 outwardly overlie the downturned end edges 52 of the inner wall panel
  • the upturned side edge portions 60 and 64 of the outer panel 26 outwardly overlie the upturned side edge portions 56 of the inner wall panel member 24, with the downturned end portions 52 and the V-shaped troughs 54 of the inner wall panel member 24 engaging the inner side surface of the outer wall panel member 26.
  • Opposite end portions of the laterally nested panels 24, 26 are then bent upwardly (as indicated by the arrows 72 in FIGS. 4 and 5), relative to a central portion of the panels disposed between the troughs 54, until the outer end portions of the panels are transverse to their central portions.
  • the upward bending of the opposite outer end portions of the nested panels occurs along transverse bend lines 73 longitudinally extending through the V-shaped troughs 54, the proper positioning of these two bend lines 73 being facilitated by the engagement of the lower longitudinal edges of the troughs 54 with the inner side surface of the outer wall panel member 26.
  • the panels 24, 26 transversely bent in this manner, they form a generally U-shaped structure S (FIG. 2) in which the generally U-shaped inner wall panel member 24 is nested within the correspondingly configurated outer wall panel member 26, the three sides of the structure S defining the previously mentioned left, right and rear side wall sections 16, 18 and 20 of the upper coil housing 14.
  • the inner and outer panels 24, 26 are held in their U-shaped transversely bent configurations by inner elongated metal connecting members 74 having U-shaped cross sections along their lengths, and outer elongated metal connecting members 76 having generally J-shaped cross sections along their lengths, the inner members 74 being nested within their associated outer members 76 as shown.
  • the nested connecting members 74, 76 have angled, overlapping tabs 75, 77 at their outer ends which are secured to the upper and lower corners of the open front side of the structure S by sheet metal screws 78.
  • the nested connecting member pairs 74,76 connected at their opposite ends to the left ends of the generally U-shaped structure 5 (FIG. 2) thus function as bracing structures which securely hold the structure S in its U-shaped configuration.
  • the top connecting member 76 has a top side portion 76 a which, together with inner side portions of the transversely bent side edge sections 64 of the outer wall panel member 26, may be upwardly bent to form the previously mentioned external duct connection flange 36 (FIG. 1) to which the supply duct 38 may be connected.
  • the connecting members 74 and 76 With the inner and outer wall panel members held in their transversely bent configurations by the connecting members 74 and 76, the previously mentioned transversely bent panel portions 52, 56, 58, 59, 60 and 64, and the V-shaped troughs 54, function as cooperating abutment means which captively retain the inner wall panel member 24 on the outer wall panel member 26, and also serve to maintain the previously mentioned insulation spaces 28 between the inner and outer wall panel members.
  • the inturned end edge portions 58 of the outer wall panel 26 act as stops for the inturned end edge portions 52 of the inner wall panel to prevent the inner wall panel 24 from moving leftwardly relative to the outer wall panel, while the inturned side edge portions 60 and 64 of the outer panel act as stops for the outwardly bent side edge portions 56 of the inner panel to prevent the inner panel from moving upwardly or downwardly relative to the outer panel. Additionally, as previously mentioned, the inturned end edge portions 52 of the inner panel, together with the troughs 54, act as spacing portions within the transversely bent panels to maintain the insulating air spaces 28 therebetween.
  • the inner and outer sheet metal walls 30, 32 of the access panel 22 are of a drawn construction, with central portions of the walls being outwardly formed relative to peripheral portions 82, 84 thereof which are suitably intersecured and define a connection flange 86 around the periphery of the access panel structure.
  • the access panel 22 is removably secured over the open front end of the three-sided structure S by means of a series of sheet metal screws 88 extended through suitable openings in flange 86 as illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • the return housing 14 a is constructed in the same manner as just described in conjunction with the coil housing 14, with components in the return housing 14 a similar to those in housing 14 being given identical reference numerals, but with the subscript "a", for ease in comparison to their counterparts in housing 14.
  • the housing 14 a is formed from transversely bent, interlocked inner and outer sheet metal wall panel members 24 a and 26 a , which form the three-sided housing structure S a , with these panel members being held in their transversely bent, nested configuration by the elongated connection members 74, 76 respectively extending between the top and bottom corners of the open front side of the structure S a .
  • the double-walled access panel structure 22 a is removably secured over the open front side of the structure S a by means of sheet metal screws 88 a .
  • the walls 30 a , 32 a of the access panel 22 a form an insulating air space 34 a therebetween (FIG. 1), and the inner and outer panels 24 a , 26 a which form the three interconnected housing side wall sections 16 a , 18 a and 20 a define insulating air spaces 28 a therebetween.
  • horizontally inner side portions of the inwardly bent side edge sections 64 a and the connecting member 76 a may be downwardly bent to form the previously mentioned generally rectangular duct connection flange to which the return duct 40 (FIG. 1) may be secured.
  • the housings 14, 14 a may be easily and quite rapidly formed without the necessity of individually constructing each of their four side walls and then individually interconnecting all of the four side walls with threaded fasteners or specially designed clip members, as is the case in double-walled air conditioning cabinet apparatus of conventional construction.
  • three of the four side walls of each of the housings 14, 14 a are formed from only two elements - the initially flat sheet metal panels 24, 26 (or 24 a , 26 a as the case may be) which are captively interlocked to one another by their integral cooperating abutment means that also automatically function to create and maintain the insulating air spaces between the bent panels.

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